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The only team that’s out of contention for the play-offs in IPL 2018, Delhi Daredevils will look to play the party pooper as their disappointing campaign nears an end. That they will wrap up their season with home games against Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, two of IPL’s most …

Lizelle Lee and Shabnim Ismail starred with bat and ball respectively as South Africa women extended their winning streak against Bangladesh, albeit in a different format, at the Diamond Oval ground in Kimberley on Thursday (May 17). The visitors are yet to record a win in the tour. With Proteas’ …

Given Sri Lanka’s injury woes – particularly to their fast bowlers – Head Coach Chandika Hathurusingha has been putting in place a system that will help the team reduce injuries. During Sri Lanka’s eight-day residential training camp in Kandy ahead of the tour of West Indies, Cricket Victoria’s High-Performance Manager …

Hello and welcome to Match 51 of IPL 2018. It’s a do or die game for RCB as they face off table toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. For as clinical as SRH have been throughout the tournament, the fact that they have nothing left to play for …

Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi is set to miss the charity match at Lord’s between World XI and Windies on May 31. The 38-year-old, who was expected to make a brief one-off comeback to international cricket, via the T20 game, is recovering from a knee injury. Afridi, on Twitter, claimed that …

Sri Lanka will be glad that they will have the services of two of their most experienced players for the upcoming tour of West Indies after senior batsman Angelo Mathews and seamer Suranga Lakmal passed their fitness tests. Both players were picked in the squads named last week, but their …

Zimbabwe Cricket, on Thursday (May 17), named Lalchand Rajput as the interim head coach after former fast bowler Heath Streak was sacked from the position in March earlier this year. “The 56-year-old is expected to start work immediately ahead of the triangular Twenty20 international (T20I) series involving Zimbabwe, Australia and …

Smriti Mandhana and Harmanpreet Kaur will lead IPL Trailblazers and IPL Supernovas respectively in the upcoming Women’s T20 Challenge Match to be played ahead of IPL 2018 Qualifier 1 on May 22 at the Wankhede Stadium. The one-off match will feature 26 players, including 10 international cricketers from Australia, England …

The International Cricket Council (ICC), cricket’s world governing body, has started a drive to build its ‘independent identity’. In its update on the global strategy for cricket, the council’s Strategy Working Group (SWG) has cited over-reliance on India as its biggest weakness in its effort to make cricket a global …